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Training For Green Jobs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Green-collar workers aren't just wind farm technicians and solar panel installers anymore. Increasingly, the U.S. labor force needs managers with s...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Endangered Banana
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Did you know bananas might soon slip into history? That's because from Paris to Peoria, we all eat only one variety, and it's vulnerable to a fungu...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fuel Cells Improve With Platinum
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that's one of the things the automotive industry is looking at bef...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Costly Invasive Fire Ants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien. It involves using insec...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Galapagos Conservation Helps Native Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Isolated from the rest of the world for most of their existence, the Galapagos Islands are home to more unique plant species than almost any other ...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Going Green, Vegas Style
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In today's Las Vegas, there's more than money that's green. The desert city's hotels and casinos are going green, as in environmentally friendly, b...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Forests Changing In Midwest
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Midwestern settlers of yesterday would feel unsettled by what they'd see there today. They wouldn't recognize the forests for the trees.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Invasive Algae Vacuumed Up
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Okay, so you're out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What's goi...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Keeping Methane In Check
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Sun In Spain Good For Solar Farm
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. But near Serpa, in neighboring Portugal, the sun shines nearly all the time. This is why an internatio...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Water Pollution Cleanup
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
Environmentally Friendly Furniture
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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As eco-friendly furniture makes the transition from small specialty shops to mass market merchandisers, one thing is becoming clear. Green comes in...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
Tiger Conservation Population Model
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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It may not be plain to see “we’ve got a tiger by the tail” -- as the song Buck Owens made popular insists. But we do seem to have ’em right where ...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pond Recovery Study
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But Jonathan Chase o...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Reducing Exposure to Air Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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If you’re stuck in traffic, here’s something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Wrong Fish
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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It’s another conservation success? Maybe not. The greenback cutthroat trout was declared extinct in 1937, but a few populations were found in Color...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Coral and Symbiodinium
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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In recent years, scientists have watched in dismay as large parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have died off. Fortunately, they’re beginning t...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Nature at Home
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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Some 60 million American households now keep at least one pet. Most favor cats or dogs, though the ranks of exotic pet owners are growing. Many peo...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Pyrolysis with Benefits
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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Let’s hear it for “agrichar”! Why?

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Speedy Songbirds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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If you think songbird songs are wonderfully complex, you’re going to find this story simply amazing. Until recently, researchers knew little about ...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Coral Bank
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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Mary Hagedorn, a marine biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, is banking on the future of coral. Literally.

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Stover Fuel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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When it comes to discovering sources of renewable energy, Penn State engineering professor Bruce Logan is outstanding in his field. A corn field, ...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
For the Birds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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Birds of a feather flock together -- but not like they used to. That's the finding of Kimberly With, a biology professor at Kansas State University...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Muscle Power
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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Jet propulsion doesn't always make you fast...Take, for example, the Antarctic scallop. These bivalve mollusks shouldn't even be able to move. Yet ...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Chemistry That’s Green
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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Contrary to what you might think, “green chemistry” is not used to make that “gooey, drippy, oozy, cold and clammy stuff” called “Green Slime” that...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1